Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-21

This was the text taken by Rev. A. L
Jordan, pastor of the First Baptist church
last evening, from which to preach a vel
considered, well delivered sermon upon thu
all absorbing topic, Anarehism. The au
ditorium was filed with members of the
church, and many from other congrega
tons, and all listened to the discourse will
the closest attention: A synopsis of TIT
sermon follows:
THE SERMON.
In Oriental countries, old hedges are in
tested with reptiles, and it is exceedingly
dangerous to break through them, as
serpents of the most deadly character hide
there. These hedges naturally suggested
to the fertile, wide awake brain ofSolomon,
the restraints which we name laws, and by
which human thoughts, words and action:
are to be limited and controlled.
The text means then that we are sur
rounded by natural and necessary restraint:
IN this world which we call laws. Limited
by these restraints, there is perfect safety.
Break through them and a serpent shall
bite you. This statement is at variance
with Anarchism. Indeed, the text is
fat contradiction of the views enter
tanned by the Anarchists, Webster
ster says, "Anarchy means want o.
government; a state of society where there
is no law or supreme power. Or where The
laws are not efficient and individuals dc
what they please with impunity; political
confusion"
And as we have no evidence whatever
that the Anarchists attach any other mean
ing to the word than that we find in the
dictionaries we shall keep To that dehnl'
ton.
In the funeral professions at Chicago the
other day there was but n emblem Of
United States authority visible, and that
was u cheap pattern of the Stars and
Stripes, carried by an old soldier. Against
this they entered their most vigorous pro
tests. They reject the Divine law, com
monty called the Ten Commandments.
The criminals, with the possible exception
of one, would not even recognize a minis
ter of the Gospel, nor have l seen any state
ment that one was called to ~officiate at any
one of the funerals. Consequently we dc
no violence to their creed when we say
that in our sense of civil and moral law
they are without law, and glory in It's de
structiOn.
If they are right and we are wrong, then
! they deserve better treatment than they
received at Chicago the other day.
five are right and they are wrong, then
they broke the hedge and the serpent bit
them precisely as the text says it would.
IN DEFENCE OF " VIEWS
we say to these red-handed reformers:
what have you to do with our govern
ment any way?" Our " ancestors came
to this country when it was crude and
wild; cleared up its forests; built cabins;
fought the wild beasts and Indians and
British and Tories; Suffering long, weary
years to build up a government which
suited them, then dying, bequeathed 1t to
their posterity, just as any parent would
beaueath his estate to his heirs.
When the rebellion came on tens OF
thousands of our fathers, brothers and
| sons poured out their blood on southern
battlefelds, as if to reSement the grand
superstructure again, and before the blood
Is ull NOu SlCCD u Va Nv Ah PAN
| slums of some foreign despotism, where
your own ancestors had helped to make
the conditions what they are, and come
over here to tear into shreds, with your
Kissing, deadly, dynamite, the Constitute
ton, the Government, the schools,
churches, homes, which have been pur-
chased, not with silver and gold, but with
our own blood and that of u ancestors.
Suppose that l enter the home of my
neighbOr and find his family government
not to my taste, although i'll perfect har-
mony with the laws of his God and OF his
land. | threaten that home with destruc-
ton if they don't adopt my code,
and finally hurl the fathers maugled
corpse at the feet of his wife and children.
Why, sir, has that man Il right to govern
his family or not? If he has not, then
have /?
And again, We say to these getlemen, II
you do not like our form Of government
you do not have to stay here. Doa s we have
done, 90 some where and build up one to
suit yourselves. Yet there is no place this
side of perditiOn, so far as we know, where
such q thing would be tolerated.
And further, we must believe that there
are thousands of good
PURE MEN AMI woMEN
in this country, who have collie by their
wealth Just as righteOusly before God as
you have by your poverty and Ignorance.
| Their ancestors settled here in earl days,
bought land cheap, endured all the priva
tions of frontier life, and left it honestly
gained in the hands of their children, and
now they are invited by your creed to call
about them all the blear-eyed, red-nosed
bummers and wife.beaters and hand
over the money thus earned. l am not
here to defend all the rich, as against the
poor, for our Interpretation of the word
Anarchist, rs you will see presently, in
clues not a few OF this class.
But who cannot see that we owe a debt
TO the men Of energy and honesty who
build up the mills, manufactures, shops
and stores of this country, which these
loud. mouthed Anarchists never recog-
nize?
But the answer to which / attach most
Importance from my place in the pulpit
this Sunday night is this: That Anarchy
by the definition of Webster, and by the
bold, outSpOken attitude OF that type oil
Anarchy before us today,
HURLS IFS MURDERoUs DYNAMITE
at the divine law as well as the human.
In tine creed of the Anarchists there is
no God such as the Bible reveals, no
Christ, nc Churches, nor Sunday Schools,
nor Christian homes. Their creed forces
them upon this ground: They dare not
recognize, or in any way endorse, the New
Testament, because it teaches that every
soul is to be subject unto the higher pow
ers, for there is no power but Of God.
The powers that be are ordained of God.
Whoever, therefore, resisteth the power
resisteth the ordinance of God, etc. See
Rom. 1917.
Consequently the Bible must go, and
all that follows in its train. There are no
school houses, nor churches, nor Sunday
schools, nor orphan asylums, nor asylums
for the blind, deaf and dumb, insane and
idiotic. Such things were never found in
any country before the Bible wa carried
there. Away with them. Down with the
grave stones at the heads of your mothers,
for there is some verse from the Bible
| there. and with the Bible. of course. we